Shooter in Paris Attacks Buried Despite Objections

January 17, 2015 6:44 PM

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The mayor of the eastern French city of Reims says one of the Islamist brothers in the terrorist attack on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was buried in Reims, despite concerns the grave could become a shrine for extremists.

Arnaud Robinet said on Saturday that gunman Said Kouachi was buried late Friday.

Whatever the French authorities think of the killers of the cartoonists, there is no justification for not permitting a proper burial for his family and friends to mourn over a grave. French justice permitted the instant shooting to death of who they believed to be the killers of the cartoonists. Yet it is not justified to deny the perpetrators' family and friends a grave to mourn over. What about those individuals who loved and cared for the perpetrators during their lifetimes and even their childhoods? They are not being implicated in the killings of the cartoonists. The perpetrators are dead. Their souls have left their bodies and gone into eternity. Yet their loved ones are left behind. By denying the perpetrators a grave, it is only punishing their loved ones.